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- Jana Ballinger
- December 7, 2008
- 5:00 am
- 32 comments
Do you love sushi but are wondering which roll you can eat in good conscience? You’re not alone. We all know our oceans have been overfished to the point of extinction for many species. Some scientists even say that in 40 years, eating fish will be a luxury reserved for the super-rich.
For those of you who are fish lovers, the best thing you can do for the moment is to order the most sustainable fish that you can. You can find a sustainable seafood guide at www.eartheasy.com. For quick reference, check out this list. These choices have taken into account the status of wild population, the fishing method, the by-catch, and the general impact on the environment.
BEST CHOICES
Anchovies
Bluefish
Calamari
Catfish (farmed)
Clams
Crab: Blue, Dungeness and King
Crawfish
Pacific halibut
Atlantic mackerel
Mussels
Pacific octopus
Farmed oysters
Pacific black cod
Trap-caught, Pacific prawns
Wild Alaskan salmon
Sardines
Scallops (bay-farmed)
Pacific squid
Farmed striped bass
Farmed tilapia
Pacific albacore tuna
Sea urchin (uni)
EAT ONLY OCCASIONALLY
Lingcod
Lobster (Atlantic)
Mahi mahi
Octopus (Atlantic)
Prawns (U.S. farmed or wild)
Scallops (sea, bay, wild)
Shrimp (domestic, trawl-caught)
Snow crab
Sole
Squid (Atlantic)
Swordfish (Pacific)
Tuna: Yellowfin or Skipjack
AVOID
Atlantic cod
Alaska king crab
Caviar
Grouper
Haddock
Atlantic halibut
Monkfish
Orange roughy
Imported or tiger prawns
Farmed Scottish salmon
Chilean seabass
Red snapper
Skate
Swordfish
Bluefin tuna
Turbot
Yellowtail flounder
Adapted from Gorgeously Green: 8 Simple Steps to an Earth-Friendly Life by Sophie Uliano.
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Jana Ballinger
Jana Ballinger has more than 15 years of experience as a writer and copy editor for daily newspapers. She lives in a vintage house in Northern California with her husband and an orange cat.
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Good idea. It's also easy to grow lavender in your own garden.
good to know
Going out in the garden and eat dirt!
thnx for this
YUM; I shared this one
32 comments
+ add your ownUnfortunately this epidemic with our food roots to an ignorant population of people that don't think past putting it in there mouth... Regardless of the type of foo, we all need to eat more sustainably. And, if everyone were more cautious about where the food is coming from, we wouldn't have issues with declining quality. We should all pay more attention to where our food is coming from and how much we are eating.
Let us all try much harder to protect the oceans and their inhabitants!! Never were so many sushi shops... now every small town has one or two... where do we expect all this seafood to come from???
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Woulden't touch it....
thanks for the info!!! i love that SASSI allows you to text them re the fish you are eating!!
thank you! i try to live as sustainably as i can but i also love sushi! (it's also my B12 source.) i've given up almost everything else. this list will be useful
I doubt they put dolphin IN comerical sushi. You think the would of caught that by now, like when the tanuki was labled faux.
Thanks for the article.
thank you for this post!
Thank you because I LOVE sushi but do not want to hurt Mother Ocean.
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